Despite not being published until Saturday.
"#1 Best Seller," according to Amazon. Quite right, too. All the usual suspects, all on fine form.
The circle with the most intellectual influence on Ed Miliband promises to make his one of the great Premierships.
The circle with the most intellectual influence on Ed Miliband promises to make his one of the great Premierships.
Read it.
Ed West comes close to endorsing One Nation Labour in this book. So does Ruth Davis, Political Director of Greenpeace. That's the paleocons and the people who might have voted Green. West's parents are close friends of Peter Hitchens as you know, meanwhile his brother is at Spiked Online. He sits somewhere between the two. The new majority is taking shape nicely.
ReplyDeleteEd will never quite say it.
DeleteNor, for their own reasons, will spiked, although I am open to being proved wrong on that one. There is time yet.
Peter Hitchens might just, though. Probably not. But possibly. Again, there is time yet. And no one who advocated voting UKIP the Sunday before this coming Election would ever be taken seriously again.
Ruth Davis seems to be Blue Labour/One Nation Labour/Ed Miliband's woman inside the Green party or at least vote after that comes to nothing at the election.
DeleteEd West seems to be Blue Labour/One Nation Labour/Ed Miliband's man inside the Ukip party or at least vote after that comes to less nothing at the election in terms of seats won.
Why else would they be writing for this? Especially West's essay, which almost says it in so many words. On to 2020 and a second term, that time with 50 per cent of the national vote.
You are right, there's no way Hitchens' column on May 3rd will say Vote Ukip, it's not going to happen. It won't say Vote Labour or anything else either, but it won't see that, come on people, be serious.
"Critiquing the dominance in Britain of a social-cultural liberalism associated with the left and a free-market liberalism linked to the right, Blue Labour blends a 'progressive' commitment to greater economic equality with a more 'conservative' disposition emphasising personal loyalty, family, community and locality. Seeking to move beyond the centrist pragmatism of Blair and Cameron, this essential work speaks to the needs of diverse people and communities across the country. It is the manifesto of a vital new force in politics: one that could define the thinking of the next generation and beyond."
ReplyDeleteNice of them to catch up but you have been doing this for 20 years. One of the contributors to this book even said so in his commendation of one of yours. But your local party preferred someone who is so unelectable even his girlfriend can't get elected, and who spends all his time tweeting about football. It's always football, isn't it?
Several years ago I remember Philip Blond quoting him directly without attribution in the Spectator and passing off the thoughts as original Blond. Mr. Lindsay needs to start caring about this kind of stuff.
DeleteAnd yes, it is always football. Maybe you have to be from somewhere like the North East to understand how evil it is, robbing the clever lads of their chances in life.
DeleteAs David has often pointed out the whole country has been like that for 20-odd years now, even an old Etonian Prime Minister and old Etonian princes have to pretend to love football.
DeleteBut this area is still the worst, maybe apart from Liverpool but maybe not. That was why I so wanted David as our MP, I still do one day. We are the people who follow politics and ideas generally from very early ages, we are the people who become politically active still in school, but we are the people who can never be MPs.
It's either an all-women short list bringing in someone from outside politics completely (Pat Glass held a party card for decades but was never even active at ward level until 2007, MP in 2010) or it's what they'd had lined up if that hadn't happened. It can ever be us although it clearly should be. David would have shown that just for once it could have been us.
I know he is ill. But whose fault is that? People who put up with what we did growing up and long afterwards, passed over for council seats in his case sometimes for jobs and so on when we are obviously the best candidates and have no other options, are pretty likely to get ill.
Wot no ridicule of the Ukip car crash?
ReplyDeleteUp to my eyes today. But I'll stretch to something before dawn.
DeleteThis is a book shot through with Catholic Social Teaching, from the heart of the only party that most Catholics would ever consider voting for. Few of the contributors seem to be personally Catholic although that is not clear, but anyway it is something else.
ReplyDeleteI was at their book launch in Parliament a few hours ago and it was all jokes about football. You would have hated it, I don't know why you are so keen on them.
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